President Bill Clinton asks the following question in his book: My Life...

But there is one who knows when biology turns into humanity, when a body becomes a soul. That same one has commanded us not to kill, and since under the law of Moses a man who even accidentally hit a pregnant woman and caused a miscarriage was to be stoned, it would be negligent of God not to include in the scriptures a way of determining at what point the embryo or fetus becomes a soul, having a human spirit within it. 

22 And in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices.
23 But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul (Exodus 21).

Now the way that Bill Clinton and most other politicians have gone about solving this problem is by consulting doctors, biologists and opinion pollsters. The way that George Bush and a few other politicians have gone about solving this problem is by consulting blind religious leaders. What we are going to do is consult God directly, and cut out every middle man. We will do this by looking at his book, knowing in faith that a loving God would not leave us in the dark as regards matters involving the life and death of our kids.

At first sight, a read of Exodus 21 would indicate that all abortion is murder. But the scripture says you must give soul for soul and we know that a soul is a body with a spirit within it - I9. So actually Exodus 21 is saying that abortion is murder once the embryo or fetus has become a soul. So Bill Clinton, the President who is represented by the media as being less religious than George Bush, has actually quoted the Law of Moses directly, not because he knew that Law, but because he knows a bit about people and about fairness and about common sense (and about women).

So where do we start our search for the soul of a baby? Well, consider this...

21 When Reuben heard this he tried to deliver him out of their hand. So he said: Let us not strike his soul fatally.
22 And Reuben went on to say to them: Do not spill blood. Pitch him into this waterpit which is in the wilderness and do not lay a violent hand upon him. His purpose was to deliver him out of their hand in order to return him to his father (Genesis 37).

So striking a soul fatally, is spilling blood. If you kill a soul, if you spill blood in this way, you become bloodguilty...

19 Oh that you, Oh God, would slay the wicked one! Then even the bloodguilty men will certainly depart from me (Psalm 139). 

But how can you be bloodguilty for killing an embryo before it develops any blood? How do you spill the blood of a bloodless embryo? Evidently you cannot. So there is no bloodguilt for murder before the embryo develops a blood supply. If you visit www.pregnancy.org or www.babycentre.co.uk you will discover that the heart starts to pump blood around the embryo in week 5. These weeks are measured from the last menstruation that actually occurred. So this is week 3 after conception. So before week 5, abortion is not murder. The heartbeat becomes regular and the 4 chambers of the heart are formed in week 6 and the brain starts growing, presumably thanks to the blood supply. So week 6 looks like a good candidate for the week in which the embryo becomes a soul at this point. But the spirit of a human being is determined not by the body but by the head. The body is merely a vehicle for the head. So once the heart is pumping blood around the brain, then we have a human soul. But there is more to consider...

7 And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul (Genesis 2).

The first time you read this you imagine yourself in a Sci-Fi movie with God creating the body of Adam fully formed as a man and then lifting his limp lifeless flesh up onto its feet and blowing into its nostrils at which point the body comes to life, wakes up and says: I am carbon unit 3 of 7.

But we know that it did not happen like that. We know that Adam was created in the same manner that Jesus was - I6. So God formed Adam in the womb of his surrogate mother by in vivo fertilisation - I18. Then later, in the womb, he blew the spirit of life into his nostrils. But you cannot blow life into a baby's nostrils before the baby has developed any nostrils. So when does the human embryo develop nostrils? Well the answer is in the 6th week www.pregnancy.org. 

So now we have nailed it. You are bloodguilty if you kill it in the 6th/7th week, and the embryo has no spirit of life in the 5th/6th week. So a normal human embryo becomes a living soul in the 6th week. This is also logical as regards a woman under law knowing that she was late and therefore pregnant. Because in the 6th week, she is two weeks late. This would be the first time that she had good chronological confirmation that she was pregnant. Of course she might also know from other physiological changes in her body, but there again some women manage to go the whole term without 'realising' that they are pregnant. 

So abortion becomes murder at some point in the 6th week for a normal baby, by which we mean one that was conceived a few days after ovulation and implanted fairly quickly. But it is possible for this to occur late in the menstrual cycle, especially in the case of IVF, where the womb is delayed by 4 days in thickening up since the egg does not travel down the fallopian tube for 4 days sending signals to the womb to get ready. So things could be delayed as much as 7-10 days from the norm. So to avoid a miscarriage of justice we will state this: Abortion is certainly murder at some time in the 8th week after the last menstruation. This is actually the 5th/6th week after the baby is conceived and the 4th week after the first missed period. Pregnancy tests only start working 2 weeks after conception. So to avoid murder if you want an abortion you have to get your skates on! You have 2/3 weeks after the first missed period. 

So if a government were to set a law chronologically, it should make abortion illegal 6 weeks or 42 days after the last period (unless the pregnancy presents a life threatening health risk to the mother, in which case abortion is justified as a form of self defence). Furthermore the law should make it a conspiracy to murder between the pregnant woman and the doctor involved and possibly the father too if he consents, if the procedure occurs more than 52 days after the first missed period (unless the pregnancy presents a life threatening health risk to the mother).

The trouble with this, from a practical point of view, is that back street abortions then occur etc. This is why promoting safe sex is so incredibly important. 

So here we have answered President Clinton's question. But legislating for the above would not be easy. Condoms and morning after pills are the simplest solution. So all ye lovers of the two true Gods, do not make yourselves bloodguilty in this respect. Use your conscience, decide whether or not we have this right, and act accordingly. You should not need a law to tell you not to murder an innocent soul (however tiny that soul might be).

To summarize the above...

11 For the soul of the flesh is in the blood, and I myself have put it upon the altar for you to make atonement for your souls, because it is the blood that makes atonement by the soul [in it] (Leviticus 17).

So before the fetus develops a blood supply, it has no soul. It is obvious that one cannot be held bloodguilty for killing an organism which has no blood. This is why Gabriel said to Mary:

Through which also the holy [thing] being generated will be called, Son of God. (Luke 1:35).

At conception the embryo is a 'thing' neuter in the Greek. It has no soul, no spirit exists in it.